Process of decorating plaited fabrics.



No. 678,I64. Patented July 9, 1901. v. GBEPET & c. J. numuuun.

PROCESS OF DECORATING PLAITED FABRICS.

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VICTOR OREPET AND OASIMIR JOSEPH DUMOULIN, OF LYONS, FRANCE.

PROCESS OF DECORATING PLAITED FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,164, dated uly 9, 1901. 7 Application filed November 27, 1900. Serial No. 37,864. (Specimens).

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, VICTOR CRFJPET and OAsIMIR JOSEPH DUMOULIN, citizens of the Republic of Fran ce,residin g at Lyons,France, have invented a new and useful Process for the Decoration of Plaited Fabrics, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, and for which we have made application for patent in France, dated the 4th day of May, 1900.

The invention relates to light fabrics having straight and regular plaits which are obtained mechanically on known machines by covering the fabric with an auxiliary paper which is plaited at the same time as the fabric and maintains the plaits of the latter until they are fixed by heat or otherwise.

This invention consists in applying to the lower edge of the plaits while they are still pressed and held by the paper auxiliary a light layer of color, producing when the fabric is separated from its support stripes which are seen by transparency on the right side of the material.

The invention is illustrated in theaccompanying drawings on an enlarged scale.

Figure l is a section of the fabric folded or. plaited with the paper auxiliary at the moment of receiving the color. Fig. 2 is a section of the plaited fabric freed from its support.

The simultaneous plaiting of the fabric 75 and paper 19 is effected by known folding or plaiting machines, the paper being placed above the fabric. The plaited material leaves the machine in the form shown at Fig. 1, the folds or plaits being pressed and held by the paper. It is in this state that the color is applied to the lower face a b by means of a brush or of a cylinder supplied with the required color or simply by causing the plaited material to pass over the surface of a bath of color. This application may be effected either before, during, or after the fixing of the plaits.

sufficiently-drying colors are chosen to enable'thern to bedried either naturally or artificially before the fabric is detached from the paper.

The color applied by this process on the lower edges of the plaits of the fabric penetrates more or less into the plaits by capillary attraction and according to the fluidity of the color employed, the natural porosity of the fabric, and the degree of pressure of the plaits at the moment of application. .The result is, when the fabric is separated from its paper auxiliary, as shown at Fig. 2, colored lines o c of regular width, which are seen by trans parency at the bottom of the plaits when the fabric is viewed from the right side or face. This effect, combined with the particular reflexes due to the plaiting, constitutes a new and very characteristic decoration, the effects of which vary with the nature of the fabric and the colors employed.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described process of decorating fabrics which consists in plaiting the same with a paper layer to lie between the folds, the edges of the plaits being left exposed, fixing said plaits and applying color thereto, allowing the color to dry before separating the fabric from the paper, and finally removing the fabric, substantially as described.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two witnesses.

VICTOR OREPET. OASIMIR JOSEPH DUMOULIN.

Witnesses:

GASTON JEAUNIAUX, THOMAS N. BROWNE. 

